Thrissur: Business tycoon Mohammed Nisham was held guilty in the sensational Chandrabose murder case by the trial court here on Wednesday.
District Additional Sessions Court judge K.P. Sudhir will pronounce the quantum of punishment on Thursday.
“The accused has been found guilty under IPC section 302 (murder), 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (i) (death threat), 427 (destruction of property) and 447 (criminal trespass),” the judge said while announcing the verdict.
During the trial, 79 hearings were conducted in the case in which Nisham was charged with brutally attacking the watchman with a Hummer at Shobha city here on January 30 last year. Chandrabose later died in the hospital.
Among the charges slapped by the police, IPC section 341 (forceful restraint), and 291 (for verbal abuse) were dropped by the trial court.
Nisham told the court after the verdict that he was suffering from bi-polar disorder and that he has an aged mother, two children and several employees and workers who were dependent on him. He sought leniency from the court while awarding the sentence.
Special public prosecutor C.P. Udyabhanu said Nisham was also slapped with Kerala Anti-social Prevention Act and was lodged in Kannur central jail for six months.
“The manner in which the accused rammed his Hummer on Chandrabose, shows the arrogance and inhumanness of the business tycoon,” he told the court.
For such a crime he deserves capital punishment," Mr Udyabahanu told the court.
